Category Archives: Big Screen Small Screen

Zone Radio 100.3 WKIT, 103.1/ 98.3 FM WZLO and AM 620 The Pulse WZON, in partnership with Bangor Mall Cinemas is proud to present the first two episodes of Stephen King’s Hulu miniseries “11.22.63,” to be shown at the Bangor cinemas on Presidents Day, Monday, Feb. 15 starting at 8 p.m. Tickets to the […]

According to an article in Variety Magazine, Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly’s new film “Beneath the Harvest Sky,” will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, set for Sept. 5-15. Gaudet, an Old Town native, and Pullapilly are best known for their documentary “The Way We Get By,” about the Maine Troop Greeters […]

“The Nite Show,” the Maine-made late night talk and comedy show hosted by Bangor’s Danny Cashman, announced this week that it would be expanding its broadcast to WAGM-TV FOX 8 out of Presque Isle this September. Starting at midnight on Saturday, Sept. 7, “The Nite Show” will broadcast to Aroostook County viewers on WAGM, making […]

Maine is certainly not immune to the power of the Internet meme. In fact, it seems that no one is immune to the meme, whether it’s Peanut Butter Jelly Time, Nyan Cat, or Gangnam Style. In case you didn’t know, the Harlem Shake is the latest meme craze, unless you either live under a rock […]

Maine Film Center, the parent organization of the Maine International Film Festival (MIFF), held each year in July, announced on Tuesday its plan to purchase Waterville’s Railroad Square Cinema. The Maine Film Center’s purchase of the two-theater cinema – aided by a private donation from Colby College – will be complete in mid-December. “Waterville has […]

Scoff all you wish, but Ashley Hebert – the Madawaska native who was the season seven “Bachelorette” on ABC – is actually doing it. She’s actually getting married to J.P. Rosenbaum, who proposed to her on her season finale in Aug. 2011. They’ll be married in December in a televised ABC program, because Kim Kardashian […]

Two Maine cousins are set to go before the panel of business-world heavyweights on the ABC show “Shark Tank,” to see if their business plan can hold water. Jim Tselikis and Sabin Lomac will be featured on this evening’s (Friday’s) episode of “Shark Tank,” set to air at 8 p.m., pitching their lobster roll food […]

The NBC reality show “Who Do You Think You Are?” in which celebrities trace their genealogical roots, will have a Maine connection featured on tonight’s show. Actress Helen Hunt interviews a University of Maine alumna, Shannon Risk. UMaine’s press release tells more… An NBC genealogical reality show, “Who Do You Think You Are?” airing Friday, […]

I waited until I came into the office this morning to read this year’s Oscar nominations. This meant that I had to avoid reading all my major media sources — from the New York Times to Jezebel — in the hopes that I wouldn’t get any spoilers. This was extremely difficult. Of course, I did […]

First off, a follow up to my post two weeks ago, about the corn cookies I wanted to make from Lucky Peach magazine. I was on the hunt for freeze dried corn, and had just about thrown up my hands at the prospect of finding it in the Bangor area. Short of finding some end-of-the-world […]

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Emily Burnham

Emily Burnham is a Maine native, UMaine graduate, proud Bangorian and a writer and editor for Bangor Metro Magazine, the Weekly and the Bangor Daily News, where she's worked since 2004. She reports on everything from local bands to local food to all the cool things going on in the Greater Bangor area. In her quest for stories, she's seen countless concerts and plays, been lobster fishing, interviewed celebrities, hung out with water buffalo and played in a ukulele orchestra. She's interested in everything that happens in Maine. Albums for review are accepted digitally only; please no CDs.